Cinematograph and gramophone machine.



F. VON MADALER.

CINEMATOGHAPH AND GRAMOPHONE MACHINE.

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FERDINAND VON MADALER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE ROTARY PHOTO-GRALPHIC CO. LTD., OF WEST DRAYTON, ENGLAND, A CORPORATION OF GREATBRITAIN AND. IRELAND.

CINEMATOGRAPH AND GRAMOPHONE MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Application filed June 22, 1915. Serial No. 35,637.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnnmnixxn voN MADA- mm, a subject of the AustrianEmperor, and a resident of New York. in the State ofNew York, UnitedStates of America, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in(linematograph and Gramophone Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in cinematograph and grainophonemachines, that is to say to apparatus, of the type described in my priorPatent No. 1,139.241 of May 11, 1915, for taking, viewing or projectinga succession of pictures upon a traveling film or paper strip,hereinafter referred to as a film, the machine being used to view orproject the pictures on the film in a manner to represent a movingsubject, or as a series of varied and stationary sub jects, the machinebeing also provided with mechanism for enabling it to be used as agramophone the arrangement being such that either device may be usedindependently of the other or the two may be used together the two partsworking in synchronism if a gramophone disk or record synchronized withthe picture has been provided for the purpose.

The principal object of the invention is to combine a cinematograph andgramophone apparatus in such a manner that the combined mechanism issimple and capable of being easily and quickly disconnected so thateither device may as stated be used alone if desired, certain parts ofthe mechanism being employed for driving both devices.

It will be understood that in using in this specification and claims theterm cinematograph a viewing apparatus as well as a projecting apparatusis included, while in the term gramophone is included other forms oftalking apparatus such as those of the cylinder type.

Further objects of the invention are the simplification and improvementof certainof the details of construction all of which will hereafter bemore fully described.

The invention will now be described with reference to an embodimentthereof illustrated by wayof example in the accompanying drawings inwhich Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the machine in a position forviewing the pictures within the machine by means of an attachmentcomprising focusing tubes and eye pieces.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the machine with the cover or top thrown back.

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. l is a sectional elevation on line 4-4; of Fig. 5 of the operativemechanism, removed from the casing, drawn to an enlarged scale.

Fig. is an underneath plan of the operative mechanism, removed from thecasing, drawn to the same scale as F ig. 4.

Fig. (3 is a longitudinal section of the gate mechanism, drawn to anenlarged scale.

Figs. 7, 8 and 9, are front, side and back elevations respectively.drawn to an enlarged scale, of the means for adjusting the shaft uponwhich the shutter is mounted, and for driving said shaft directly, and

Fig. 10 is a plan of a part of the top of the casing illustrating theconnection between the driving mechanism and the gramophone disk plate.

In. the drawings, 1 represents the outer box or casing,2 a condenser, 3the lens holder, 4 the focusing tubes and eye pieces, which may be ofthe known prismatic or binocular form. for viewing the pictures withinthe machine, 5 the film box, (3 the table or framework supportl'ng. onits upper side, the condenser 2, film box 5 and gate mechanism 7, and.on its underside the driving mechanism which will be hereinafter morefully described, 8 the reproducer of the gramophone, 9 the movable armor tube supporting said reproducer, 10 the fixed support for such armleading to' the trumpet or resona tor 11 situated in and forming thebottom of the box.

The film box 5 which is preferably of the form described in Patent No.1,100,591, dated June 16, 1914, is adapted to accommodate two spools onwhich the film 14 is wound, the spools are provided'with crankedspindles adapted to be engaged by cranks 15, 16,'forming part of thedriving mechanism, the film box, when in position rests between theflanged parts 17, 18, formed on the table 6.

As described in the aforesaid specification the film box has a passagemidway between the two spool boxes to enable light from the lamp orother source to pass through to the film, further description of thisfeature is however unnecessary.

The gate mechanism 7 through which the film 14 passes, is illustrated onan enlarged scale in Fig. 6, and comprises a fixed vertical plate 19provided with rounded edges and tapers toward its up er end, a .recessof thesame width as the film 14 being pro vided in the lower part ofsaid plate. Co operating with the plate 19 is a movable plate 20supported on two studs 21, 22, (Fig. 2) slidably mounted in a plate 23carried by atubular part 24, slidably arranged in an extension 25 formedon the lens holder 3. The part 24 is provided with a bolt 26 furnishedwith a finger 27 which passes through a slot 28 formed in the tubularpart 24 at rightv angles to its axis, so that the bolt 26 has only alimited rotary movement within the part 24. In order to impart a slightlongitudinal movement to the part 24 and thereby to the plate 23. anangular slot 29 is formed in the extension 25. For the purpose ofproviding resilient pressure between the parts 20 and 23, a leaf spring30 is supported on the studs 21 and 22 between the parts named. To placethe film'in position the finger 27 is moved into the position shown inFigs. 2 and 3, the film is placed between plates 19 and 20 and, toprevent the film from catching-againstthe projection '31 on the plate 20which is adapted to enter the recess in the plate 19, the plate 20 isprovided with a rounded projection 32 the plate 19 beingcorrespondingly. recessed to receive said projection. -When the film isin position the finger 27 is turned over'to the right, the plate 20 isthereby moved toward the plate 19, in a direction at right angles to thefilm whereby the latter is held without I undue pressure in the recessprovided therefor, the pressure being equal throughout the width ofthegate. 23 and the leaf spring 30 are all furnished with rectangularapertures of the size of the picture throughwhich the light rays pass tothe lens 33 or to the attachment The film is drawn through the gate bythe pin sprocket wheel 34. the pins on which engage with recesses formedin the edgesv crank 16 is mounted.

The plates 19, 20 and of the film, a roller being provided at the otheror left side of the gate for guiding the film from the left hand spoolinto the gate.

The driving mechanism located below and supported by the table 6comprises a shaft 36 supported on lugs 37 and 38 depending from thetable 6 on which shaft is fixed a worm wheel 39 gearing with a worm 40on a shaft 41 arranged below. and at right angles to, the shaft 36. Theshaft 36 is provided with a bevel wheel 42 engaging with a bevel wheel43 mounted on the lower end of a vertically disposed spindle 44 whichspindle also carries one part of a frictional coupling 45 the co-actingpart being carried by a sleeve 117 surrounding the spindle 44, upon theupper end of which sleeve the This crank serves to wind the film on theright hand spool while the picture is being viewed or projected. thefrictional coupling 45 prevents the film from being wound too tightly onitself and possible breakage for, when the film is fully wound the crank16 remains at rest notwithstanding the continued movemeut of the drivingmechanism.

A crown wheel 46, mounted on the shaft 36, is adapted to engage with apinion 47 mounted on a vertically disposed spindle 4 upon the upper endof which the crank 15 is fixed. When the shaft 36 is movedlongitudinally in the direction of the arrow (Fig. 4), in the mannerhereinafter described, the crown wheel is brought into engagement withthe pinion 47 and rotates the crank 15 in the reverse direction to thatof the crank 16 thereby winding the film on the left which the crank 15is rotated and also to prevent undue tightening of the film upon itself,the pinion 47 is not fixed on the spindle 48 but is loosely mountedthereon and frictionally held between two collars 49 and 50, the formerbeing fixed to the spindle and the latter slidable thereon, by means ofa. spring 51, placed between the collar 50 and an enlarged end 52 formedon the spindle. By this means when the film 14 is fully rewoundon theleft hand spool and the mechanism is still in motion, the pinion 47 willslip freely on the spindle 48.

The shaft 36 is moved longitudinally by means of a reversing arm 53pivoted on the pin 54 depending from the underside of the arrow, Fig. bymeans of the-knob 58. the spindle 59 of which passes through the table 6and engages with the slotted end of the arm 53, the spindle 36 is causedto slide longitudinally and thus remove the bevel wheels 12, 43, out ofmesh and bring the crown wheel 46 into mesh with the pinion l? for thepurpose above described.

The shaft 41 is supported at one end on a lug 60 formed on the table (5,and at the other on a framework 61 secur d to the framework of a motor62. A shutter 63 is fixed on the shaft 41 and said shaft also carriestwo clutch elements 64, 65, the element 61 is mounted freely on theshaft and is provided with a disk part 61*, while the element on isslidably arranged on but rotates with said shaft and is provided with anannular recess 65*.

The disk part 64. which is formed with a beveled periphery. is furnishedwith a cam tooth 60 arranged to engage with a tooth or star wheel 67 onthe spindle 68 upon the outer end of which is mounted. the sprocketwheel 34 for drawing the film through the gate 7. The spindle issupported at its upper end on an adjustable pivot pin 69 fixed in a lug70 formed on the plate 19 of the gate 7 and at its lower end on a fixedpivot pin 71 fixed in a part 72 depending from the underside of thetable 6. v

The cam tooth 66 turns the sprocket wheel 31 through an angle sufiicientto change the picture at each complete revolution of the shaft 41.

hen it is desired to rewind the film on the left hand spool it is firstnecessary to open the gate 7 and to release and hold the film away fromthe sprocket wheel 34, this latter being efiected by means of thereversing arm the extreme inner end of which is slotted and engages witha downwardly projecting pin 73 carried by a crank arm 74 loosely mountedon a sleeve 74* attached to table 6 and is held thereon by the collar68*. A vertically disposed pin 75. carrying a roller 7 5*, is mounted onthe other end of the crank arm 74. said pin projecting through a slot 76formed in the table 6. When the arm 53 is moved in the direction of thearrow (Fig. 5) the pin moves toward the gate 7 and releases the filmfrom the pins on the sprocket wheel 34. With the parts in thisposition'the film may be rewound on the left hand spool.

In order to provide means for taking up wear on the disk part 64. theshaft 41 is mounted on pivot pins 77 78. adjustably mounted in the lug60 and framework 61 of motor 62 the mounting of the pivot pin 77 beingshown morev clearly on an enlarged scale in Figs. 7, 8 and 9. As shown.the pin 77 is provided with an eccentrically dis osed pivot point, thepin being maintained 1n the desired position by a set screw 78 and alsoby a set screw 79 carryinga washer 80 engaging with a recess in the pin77. The

disk part and cam tooth being furnished with a beveled periphery areable to enter farther into the toothed wheel 07 as the distance betweentheir respective shafts is decreased.

For the purpose of providing means for enabling single pictures to beviewed. the shaft 11 is furnished with a gear wheel 81 adapted to meshwith a wheel 82 carried by a spindle 83 mounted in a sleeve 84: providedon the lug (30. the outer end of such spindle being formed with a squareor screw threaded as shown to receive a crank handle. The casing 1 maybe provided if desired with a mark to indicate one turn of the handle,for th purpose of indicating when a picture ha been broughtinto registerwith the viewing aperture.

The gramophone mechanism is operated by and connected to theciuematograph mechanism above described in the following manner:

A worm wheel 8 is mounted on the shaft 30 and meshes with a worm wheel85 mounted on a spindle 81', supported by a bracket 87 secured to thetable 6. The upper end of the spindle 86 passes through the -maintainedin its highest position on the spindle 80 by means of a spring 90located within the sleeve and bearing on said sleeve at one end and on apin 91 passed through the spindle 86 at the other, the sleeve beingfurnished with a bayonet slot 92 in which said pin slides for thepurpose hereafter referred to.

The worm wheel 89 meshes with a worm wheel 93 mounted pn a horizontallyarranged spindle 94. supported in a double bearing 95. secured to theoutside of the cover 12. as shown on an enlarged scale in Fig. 10. Thespindle 94: carries at its other end a worm wheel 96 which is adapted toengage with a worm wheel 97 mounted on a vertically disposed spindle 98upon which the supporting plate 99 for the record disk 100 is mounted.The worm wheels 89 and 93 being arranged at rightangles to each otherpermits the gears to disengage easily when the cover is raised Thespindle 98 is provided with any desired form of governing means, thatshown being of known form and comprises a worm wheel 101 mounted on theinner end of the spindle 98 and meshes with aworm 101 formed on ahorizontally disposed'spindle 102 upon which the sliding sleeve 103, towhich one end of each of the springs 104 carrying the weights 105 aresecured. the other end of each spring being fixed to the spindle 102.

When it is desired to operate the gramophone in combination with thecinematograph the parts of the mechanism occupy the position shown inFigs. 2, 3, 4 and 5, but should it be desired to operatethecinematograph part alone the sliding sleeve 88 is pushed down on-thespindle86' and-given.

' driving mechanism, caused by the engagement' of the cam element withthe toothed wheel, to throw such mechanism out of gear, and, to effectthis the clutch element 65 is slidably moved on the shaft 41 so as todisengage said element from its co-acting part 64, and the means foreffecting this comprises the bent arm 106 pivoted at 107 on the part 7Q, the inner end of such arm engaging with the annular recess 65* formedin the clutch element 6!", the outer end passing through an aperture 108in the table 6 and terminating in a knob 109. V

In order to prevent any rotation of the clutch element 64 while theclutch element (35 is disengaged therefrom, said element is providedwith a pin 110 which is adapted to engage with an arm 111 fixed on andmov-.

ing with the arm 106.

The mechanism may be driven by means of a handle 112 mounted on the endofthe shaft 36, which may be square or screw threaded as shown, or itmay be driven by the -motor 62 connected up to a suitable source ofcurrent supply which may be cut in or out by a switch 113 (Fig. When itis desired to View the picture by means of the attachment 4 the entirebox is preferably tilted up by means of the frame 114 held at thedesired angle by means of the arm 115.

light aperture at the rear and otherwise rendering the box light tight.

In using the terms cinematograph and gramophone in the following-claimsthe readily recognizable or essential features of such apparatus areintended, and not the driving mechanism of each apparatus as a whole. ve

What I therefore claim is v 1. In a cinematograph, the combination witha box a lid for said box, driving mechanism for said cinematographcontained within said box and including a worm wheel, a gramophonecarried by said box and lid, and mechanism for operating same includingaworm wheel, the worm wheel of the cinematograph and that of thegramophone being arranged at right angles to each other so that they mayconnect and disconnect as the lid is closed or opened.

2. In a cinematograph the combination of a box, a lid for said box, adriving mechanism for said cinematograph contained within said box andincluding a worm wheel, a gramophone carried by said box and lidmechanism for operating same including a worm wheel, the Worm wheel ofthe cinematograph and that of the gramophone being arranged at rightangles to each other so that they may connect and disconnect asFERDINAND VON MADALER.

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